TGJ Podcast 70

Inside the PGA Tour’s Traveling Circus

A longtime PGA Tour executive reflects on the stories that shaped his career
One Trip to Rule Them All

What are you left with after 19 years as a communications executive for the PGA Tour’s biggest events? A jukebox of epic tales ranging from the parking-lot chase with Tiger at Doral, a front row seat for the Keegan Bradley-Miguel Angel Jiminez greenside clash, and a late night meal at an Atlanta Waffle House where he shared a special drink with a stranger the night Arnold Palmer passed. TGJ Editor Travis Hill sits down with Chris Reimer to press play on his career with the Tour, and how it led to his piece in TGJ No. 14: A trip to King Island, golf’s next great bucket list destination.

“I look at Tiger and I say, ‘Tiger, 364 days of the year your life is probably better than mine, but I’m going to go back to the media center and sit in the air conditioning.’ He threw an expletive, hit me with an ‘F you.'”

CHRIS REIMER